recipient

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who receives.

   the recipient of money or goods

2. 2
   noun

   the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

3. 3
   noun

   a person who receives something

4. 4
   noun

   A person receiving donor organs or tissues.

5. 5
   noun

   The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.

6. 6
   adj

   receiving

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French récipient, from Latin recipiēns, present participle of recipiō (“to receive”).